Days 14,15 Last Days of Wales

Day 14-Drove down the other side of the Dyfi valley to Aberystwyth, this big town with a castle.

Took a train ride up the coast of Wales on our last full day.  

Had to be careful which car we sat in, as the train split in two and went two different ways at the foot of the estuary we were on.  

Nice electric train, though.

Our destination, Portmerion, a two hour one way train ride.  The train dumped us off in the countryside.  The resort director had reassured us there would be taxis to take us the 2miles into town.  Course, she probably went in busy season, like the above photo.  We were the only ones off the train and had to walk both ways a bit to figure out where this "fake Italian village", Portmerion, even was.  After a totally delightful 2mile hike through the woods, 

we came upon the "village", Portmerion.  Rex was shocked to learn the entry fee was more than our round trip train tickets, just to walk through the dang place.  It's supposedly been used for numerous movie shoots, most famously The Prisioner (not a film I remember), but. . . 

Posh hotel at the bottom of the hill on what, another gorgeous estuary.

Plentiful bathrooms and a small tram ride and we were finished with Portmerion, aka Wales Disneyland.  So we hiked again and had a big snack and waited forty-five minutes more for the return 2hour train ride.